VCV (Milieu + David Tagg) & Shinobu Nemoto - Jovian Clouds LP

I'm sure not many folks here know about my drone band with David Tagg, but we've been a band since 2006 and this is both our sixth album and our first on vinyl. Gigantic walls of guitar meshing with piano/tape loops/guitars by Shinobu Nemoto, Japanese music god (also known as Summons Of Shining Ruins). Brought to you by INSTALL, the New York label run by Mr. Tagg and myself, which brought you other massive releases such as The Caretaker's "Persistent Repetition Of Phrases", Peter Wright's "Snow Blind" and Aidan Baker's "Dry".

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From the blackest depths of silent space' date=' waking from a hibernation that's lasted eons, VCV steadily descend toward our galaxy, observing it as a somber spiral isolated in the middle of nothing and more nothing. Upon entering the solar system, a signal is received from Earth. Japan, to be precise. A young man named Shinobu Nemoto is jamming experimental frequencies on several dozen pieces of audio equipment in his backyard. VCV read his signals, wait, and understand. The two entities converse and agree to meet, where else but the harsh climate of Jupiter, to combine their abilities and create a message for mankind. Long hot hours are spent in atmo-suits, combining modified audio frequencies with caustic chemicals found naturally in the Jovian habitat, and etching the results into exactly one-hundred black discs with ultraviolet light. The visitors depart, their mission complete. There are no goodbyes, only quiet, patient understanding. Their languages are very different and very unimportant, but the message has been created in a new tongue. What does it mean? You might never know.[/quote']

 

Anyone who digs stuff like Ballasted-era SOTL, ambient Milieu albums or dense overgrown analog things like Gas would probably love this album. Check us out!

 

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http://soundcloud.com/installsound/sets/vcv-shinobu-nemoto-jovian-1

I've had that album Star of the King of the Dead for quite some time. I downloaded it off a blog. Quite a great album right there. I'll check this out!

  On 8/1/2011 at 4:08 AM, Capsaicin said:

I've had that album Star of the King of the Dead for quite some time. I downloaded it off a blog. Quite a great album right there. I'll check this out!

Ah, cool! That was probably DSFD. I think we actually gave it to them to leak, years ago. Glad it made an impression! Hope this new one does too.

  On 8/1/2011 at 2:53 AM, ieafs said:

vcv... jovial clowns

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Just a quick bump to let all the UK and EU droners know that this is now stocked at the ever-glammy Norman Records, and went up today as one of their recommended releases of the week!

http://www.normanrecords.com/vinyl/127894-vcv--shinobu-nemoto-jovian-clouds

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Please allow me to direct your attention to the press release of this item, a delightfully insane piece of fantasist sci-fi which, in a nutshell, explains that this is a collaboration between man and extra-terrestrial and was recorded on Jupiter. I think it's trying to say there's only 100 of them, too, but I'm not sure. That seems remarkably few considering the quality that's on offer here. Thescreenprinted covers are pretty cool, too. Nice thick ink and a bold design. As for the wax...basically we've got some lush and warm drones. It's pretty minimal and cosmic...starts out with washes of static before twinkling synths get thrown into the mix and it's totally absorbing and relaxing. Then there's a track which opens with quite an industrial sounding metallic throb over which some smooth and tasty synth top end playfully drifts overhead. Gradually the jarring background noise softens into an incredible soft but glassy high pitched drone. The tones here are soooo niiiiice. It never gets dull and it's never hard to listen to. If you're into the more relaxing side of Bee Mask's stuff, this is another record that scratches that same kind of itch for me. Drone/kosmische fans look no further.

Listening to this right now from the bandcamp site, will definitly cop it!

This is beautiful and truthful music to my ears...what a treasure to discover the Install label, some of the best music I heard in ages to be honest.

Im trying to get The Garden album on mp3 but its impossible :/

Thanks.

Thanks Archrival! I'm not sure if David or Takahiro have plans to issue In Sea-Land digitally, but if / when I find out I will post it here.